National Best Friends Day is celebrated on Wednesday, June 8. Each year, the date is dedicated to showing our favorite pal how much we appreciate their support and companionship.

Whether you will be seeing your bestie in person or plan to post a heartfelt tribute on social media, celebrate the day with these 15 quotes and sayings about friendship, obtained from BrainyQuote and A-Z Quotes.

Humorous

“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” — Laurence J. Peter

“When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun.’” — Groucho Marx

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.” — Zora Neale Hurston

Sentimental

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius

“Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” — Muhammad Ali

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” — C. S. Lewis

“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia

The Mark of a True Friend

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“True friends stab you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” — Len Wein

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf

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Celebrate National Best Friends Day with quotes about friendship and love.  Pixabay